A team of astronomers has measured a galaxy farther than any other ever seen by human beings, reporting this week that the ancient star system offers a glimpse of what the universe was like not all that long after the beginning of time.

Astronomers from Yale University and the University of California Santa Cruz announced in the Astrophysical Journal that they had identified a galaxy that formed about 13.1bn years ago, making it the earliest measured galaxy known in the 13.8bn-year history of the universe since the big bang.

Sigh. The bible is not 'wrong'; the bible says nothing about the big bang or how God actually made anything. The account in Genesis is not about the 'how' of creation at all; it's based on the creation myths of many of the nations at the time, but written polemically to show that the 'why', as far as the Jews were concerned, was THEIR God and what he wanted to do, not their many, warring gods.

One of my pet looney christians elsewhere yesterday tried to assert god's existence by explaining to me that it's god that stops other planets smashing into us

When challenged about why god would design the universe in such a manner that planets would smash into us and then take steps to protect us then why not design it so planets wouldn't smash into us in the first place he then responds with telling me that god is able to create the universe in intriguing ways